Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-01-28

rene and careless life, and one has the
very ideal of bachelorhood
There was little of this however, tfteex
or twenty years ago in the University
building where the bachelor life had its
stronghold then and from which all this
new apartment system has developed.
The big, square marble building with Its
shortened towers, was long ago found too
large for its students, and to help the col
lege treasury along nearly half its rooms
were let to bachelor tenants. The Waiver
ly place wing was shut off from the main
building as much SIS possible, doors were
cut as convenience through the inner
walls to make suites, or barred up again
to please tenants who wanted only single
rooms. The east corner of Washington
souarewas then-and always will be per-
haps-a choice spot IN the city. The
trees and fountains in the. park gave a
pleasant outlook and a charming GOODNESS
through seven months of the year, and
airiness and brightness at least through
the other five. Washington square was
nearer the heart of the city than it is now.
The New York hotel inst behind the uni
versity was then in its balmy days, and
good restaurants and theaters were near
1t.
The rooms too, were fair for those
days. All of them had thick walls and
high ceilings, with broad windows in
crusted in heavy stone walls with cor
nices. There was no running water it is
true, and steam heaters and hot air regis
tiers were alike unknown. The rooms
we're warmed partly by the sun, partly
by open CRATE fires or stoves. Coal and
gas were extras. So was all but the min
ium of service.
| Yet the ease and freedom of life in the
| big college building must have been de-
| lightful, Rooms were taken bare of
everything except the paper left by the
| last tenant on the wall, and were furnish
! ed to suit the taste or pocketbook of the
owner. Once inside the hall door of eth
er wing one was in perfect seclusion.
| Tenants on one floor scarcely knew those
on another by sight. 1t was only neces-
| sary to sport ones oak" and even the
ianitor's assistants would not break ones
! peace for three days or week. Goings
and comlngs were unquestioned, with no
! modern officer in tho doorway to watch
ones ms and outs. Nothing could be
| more unhampe or Bohemian, and the
lodges used to think their building a
sort of new fashioned inns of court, ever
though the rooms were far less dingy anC
time-worn and gray with memories of the
lives of past tenants than those in which
| Warrington and Pendennis wrote anC
TESTED, and which Pens cousin Laura, fol
all their dust and disarray and lack OF
feminine prettiness, found so attractive
ly queer. Many journalists and literary
men have lived in the University build
ing, too, from time to time. William
Henry Hurlbut had rooms there Will,
he was editor of the World, and was
well known figure in and about Washing
ton square.
The University of the Cit,
of New York has not grown up to tn,
size of its big halls even now, and baehel
or apartments, chiefly as before in TIL
two wings, are still to let. About fort.
suites some of them two rooms and
bath room, some of one room merely anC
and an alcove-are now rented to mel
who have no connection with the insti
fusion. The best suites, both in Waverl
place AID Washington place, cost 700
year. This of course includes service
but not coal or gas. The other suite
rent according to size and location, TO
$3.50, $500, $400,:or $500. The ianito
as in most other colleges, will do one
business for him, buy the coal and POI
ton it out, supply oil and furnish all ex
ira services. The University buildin
is always well filled, although the ste ad
march of things up town has left it hig
and dry out of the swim of life and pleas
ure,